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FREAKY FAUNA FACTSby Sarah Bates

Purple frogs? Sightless amphibians? Things thatgo bump in the night? Well, maybe not that, butTidbits has certainly compiled some interestingfacts on some pretty weird animals.

• One of the most endangered species in theworld is the Yangtze river dolphin, locallycalled the baiji. The dolphin may already beextinct, as a recent survey was unable tolocate any dolphins in the river.

• The olm is a blind amphibian that can live upto one hundred years. It can go ten yearswithout food and can be found insubterranean waters in Italy and Croatia.

• The dugong is related to the manatee. It willperch on its tail in the water and stick itshead above – a trait that some researchersbelieve inspired the myth of mermaids.

• A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue.

• A group of geese on the ground is called agaggle. A group of geese in the sky is calleda skein.

• The sailfish is the fastest swimmer at sixty-eight mph (109 km/h).

• The slowest fish is the seahorse, at .01 mph(.016 km/h). They are also monogamous andmate for life.

• Adèlie penguins can live up to twenty years.

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Front PageIf you leave work late, no one will notice. If you leave work early, you’ll bump

into the boss in the parking lot.

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NATIONAL BOSS DAYby Stanley Drummond

Bosses are people, too. (Really!) And every year on October 16, America pays tribute to them.• Actually, National Boss Day was created in

1958 by an Illinois secretary named Patricia Haroski. She chose October 16 because it was her father’s birthday. Her father also happened to be her boss at the time. Nevertheless, she felt that bosses in general were underappreciated, and registered the date with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an official observance.

• Interestingly enough, a 2005 survey done by an international human resources consulting firm revealed that the majority of employees would not trade places with their boss. The primary reason given was the change that would result between them and their co-workers. They could no longer ignore or laugh at any slackers in their department; they’d be responsible for any poor performers.

• Hallmark started selling Boss Day cards in 1979. While they don’t reveal actual sales figures, they do disclose that the “holiday” is poised to break into the list of top 10 card-send-ing events within the next few years.

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FREAKY FAUNA FACTS (continued):

• The kiwi is also a flightless bird that mates forlife and has the most developed sense ofsmell of modern birds.

• Crocodiles are color blind.

• Owls are the only bird with the ability to seethe color blue.

• Giraffes have no vocal chords.

• The Purple Frog is an Indian frog that wasn’tdiscovered until 2003 because of a veryunique trait. Purple Frogs live thirteen feetbeneath the ground and only come up for twoweeks during the monsoon season to mate –making them very hard to find!

• The horn of a narwhal is actually a tusk. It israre, but not impossible, for a narwhal tohave two tusks like an elephant.

• The solendon is a mammal in Cuba andHispaniola that injects venom into its preythrough its teeth. It is the only mammal thatdoes so.

• The Bumblebee Bat is so small it can fitinside a bottle cap.

• The kakapo, a New Zealand native, averagesat eight pounds and is the heaviest parrot inthe world. There are approximately sixtykakapos left in the world today.

• The fish with the glowing antenna in Finding

Nemo? That’s a female Angler. The male is1/20th her size and spends his life attached toand slowly fusing with the female.

• A house fly only lives about two weeks!

• The heart of a blue while is about the size of asmall car.

• The echidna and platypus are the only egg-laying mammals in the world. An egg-layingmammal is called a monotreme.

• The duck-billed platypus is venomous!

• Kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

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FREAKY FAUNA FACTS (continued):

• A hippopotamus can open its jaw so wide thatan eight year old could stand up in its mouth.

• A sloth can turn its heads 270º.

• The Chinese Giant Salamander can grow tothe length of an average human!

• The Gardiner’s Seychelles frog is the world’ssmallest frog. It measures less than half thelength of its name when typed.

• Elephants cannot jump.

• The Mekong Giant Catfish is the largest scale-less fresh-water fish in the world. It lives inthe Mekong river system in Asia, whichspans through the countries of Vietnam,Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Thisendangered species can grow up to 650 lbs(295 kg), can live up to sixty years and canreach up to 10 ft (3 m) long.

• Armadillo is a Spanish word meaning “littlearmored one.”

• The ostrich’s eye measures two inches (fivecentimeters) – the largest of any land animal!

• While it resembles a small bear, the wolverineis actually part of the weasel family.

• The Andean condor has a wingspan of 10.5 ft(3.2 m) - the largest of any bird in the world.

• A newborn kangaroo can fit inside a teaspoon.

• Wallace’s flying frog is a species in Malaysiaand Borneo that can glide in the air like aflying squirrel.

• The Blue-footed booby is a type of booby, asea bird, with bright blue feet. The bluer thehue, the more attractive the male is to afemale, though both sexes have blue feet.

• Xiphactinus Audax was a 17 ft (5 m) fishfrom the Cretaceous period. It could open itsjaws so wide it could have swallowed up totwo men at one time.

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From Pig to PromiseBy Tresa Erickson

Medical research has evolved rapidly in recent years, resulting in many exciting developments and provid-ing hope where there was none. Dis-eases once thought unmanageable and incurable are no longer. We can give much of the credit for these ad-vancements to the research of ani-mals, like mice, rats and pigs. That’s right. Pigs offer medical benefits for humans.

Pigs and humans are not that differ-ent physiologically, making pigs an ideal subject to research. The study of pigs and the genetic engineering of them have made way for a variety of advances in the field of medicine. Pigs have shown great promise in the prevention of disease. The pro-duction of transgenic pigs, for exam-ple, has proven useful in the effort to prevent the inherited blindness retinitis pigmentosa. Through the study of the pigs, scientists have developed a better understanding of the cellular and molecular workings of the disease and created clinical therapies, which are currently being tested.

Pigs have also shown great promise in the treatment of disease. Sev-eral pig parts are now used to treat a variety of diseases. Pig intestines have been used to treat burns and skin tears and speed up healing. Pig heart valves have been used in heart transplantations, while pig livers have been used to sustain patients until a human liver is donated. Re-search is currently underway to find a way to use pig hearts and livers permanently in transplant patients.

Pigs have even shown great prom-ise in the search for a cure for many diseases, including diabetes. In one study, insulin-producing cell clus-ters known as islets have been taken from pig pancreases and transplant-ed into diabetic monkeys, enabling their pancreases to produce insulin and reversing the diabetes.

These are just some of the medical advances that have taken place over the years due to the research of pigs. More are out there and more are sure to come. Who knew the pig had so much to offer medical researchers in the prevention, treatment and eradi-cation of disease.

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By Samantha Weaver

• It was Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard, chancellor of West Germany in the 1960s, who made the following sage observation: “A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”

• You think you’re a chocolate lover? In Spain in the 16th century, people loved chocolate so much that it was not uncommon for royal families to give cocoa as part of their daughters’ dowry.

• Chiffon is a perennially fashionable lightweight sheer fabric used in many beautiful gowns -- you yourself might have worn a chiffon dress to your prom. But you probably didn’t realize that the word “chiffon” is actually French for “rag.”

• If you’ve ever lived with another person, whether a sibling, a spouse or a roommate, it’s almost certain that no matter how good the relationship, there was friction over sharing the bathroom. A few years ago those who study such things decided to conduct a survey to determine what the most annoying bathroom-related habits are. The results: The habit that annoys people more than any other is failing to replace the roll of toilet paper when it runs out. Leaving blobs of toothpaste in the sink was a close second.

• There was once a law in Hawaii that required anyone not owning a boat to pay a fine.

• Dooley Wilson, the actor who played Sam the piano player in the Academy Award-winning 1942 film “Casablanca,” was actually a drummer -- he couldn’t play the piano at all.

• Talk about being desperate for immortality: Greek philosopher Empedocles wanted people to believe that his body had disappeared and he had been turned into a god, so he threw himself into Mt. Etna, an active volcano. ***Thought for the Day: “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.” -- Robert Orben

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By Tresa EricksonYou’ve admired gazebos since your grandfather built one overlooking the hillside in his backyard. How you loved to play there as a child. You would spend hours sitting on the floor cuddling with your dolls, drink-ing Grandma’s lemonade and eating her oatmeal raisin cookies. Amaz-ingly, thousands of children before you probably felt the same way about their family’s gazebos.

Originally situated on the roofs of houses as towers, gazebos have been around for thousands of years. They were quite common in royal gardens in ancient Egypt. In fact, murals depicting them have been discov-ered in tombs from as early as 1400 B.C. Ancient Romans often included them with their summerhouses on the coast, while Persians created their own version of gazebos known as kiosks. The Chinese often built elaborate gazebos for their gardens, whereas the Japanese created simple versions known as teahouses for rest and relaxation.

Starting in the 14th century, gaze-bos caught on in France and Eng-land. Elizabethan gardens often fea-tured gazebos designed in the same style as the main house. These were used primarily for entertaining. Dur-ing the late 1700s, many Europeans

took a liking to the Chinese-style summerhouses and starting building them in their gardens.

Gazebos made their way to the Unit-ed States in the mid-1800s. Basking in their newfound prosperity, many upper- and middle-class Americans built gazebos on their property. The popularity of gazebos declined in the late 1800s with the addition of large porches to houses. They resurged again in the 1930s as a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, only to decline in the 1940s with the introduction of pati-os to houses.

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ROMANIARomania, and Transylvania in particular, oftenbrings forth images of vampires, gypsies andother mystical, old world beings. This weekTidbits gives you the facts behind the myth aswe take you to Romania.

• The capital of Romania is Bucharest, which isalso the largest city in Romania.

• A native of Bucharest is a Bucharester.

• A large portion of Romania’s border withSerbia is formed by the Danube river, thelongest river in Europe.

• In the Middle Ages, Romania was dividedinto three principalities: Wallachia, Moldaviaand Transylvania.

• Romania is bordered by Hungary, Ukraine,Moldova, Bulgaria and Serbia.

• Romania is slightly smaller than Oregon.

• As of 2008, Romania had an estimatedpopulation of over 22 million.

• Romanian Henri Marie Coanda invented theworld’s first jet powered aircraft.

• Transylvania comes from the Latin wordstrans and silva which mean across/beyond

the black forest.

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) was set inTransylvania, Romania, and popularized theassociation of that area with vampires.

• Dracula was originally named Count Wampyr,but Stoker was inspired and changed thenamed to Dracula, which literally means son

of Dracul.

• The wooden churches of Maramures are aUNESCO (United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization) WorldHeritage Site. They are located throughoutRomania and are anywhere from 300-400years old.

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ROMANIA (continued):

• Bran Castle, often referred to as Dracula’sCastle, is a national monument and landmarkof Romania.

• Bran Castle is owned by Archduke Dominicof Austria, known as Dominic von Habsburg,an architect of New York, son of PrincessIleana of Romania.

• The first wooden castle on the site was built in1212. The current citadel of Bran Castle wasadded on in 1377. The castle was made amuseum in 1957.

• Vlad III, also known as Vlad Tepes, wasreally called Dracula, as Dracul was a namegiven to his father, Vlad II.

• Vlad III never “lived” in Bran Castle, ratherhe was imprisoned there for two months inthe summer of 1462 by the King of Hungary.

• Vlad was known in Turkish as Kazi kli

Voyvoda or Impaler Prince for his cruelforms of torture.

• The Transylvania International Film Festival isheld in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania.It was establish in 2001 and labels itself theonly international film festival in Romania.

• The city of Oradea is particularly noted for itsArt Nouveau architecture.

• 2004’s Van Helsing, based off Stoker’scharacter Abraham Van Helsing, was set inTransylvania. However, Van Helsing’s namewas changed to Gabriel instead of Abraham,as it seemed more exciting for an action film.

• The oldest known human remains in Europewere found in Pestera cu Oase (translatedfrom Romanian as Cave with Bones) in theCarpathian Mountains of Romania. Theremains, from three different individuals,were discovered in 2002 and have been datedby archaeologists as anywhere from 34,000to 36,000 years old.

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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTHBy Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

No Cure for Heartburn, but Medicines Can Help

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: In 2004, I had a scope put down my throat and into my stom-ach. The doctor said I had a hiatal hernia and signs of acid reflux. He put me on Prilosec. It stops my heartburn very well. I have been on it ever since. If I miss two doses, the heart-burn returns. Is it safe to take this medicine for long periods of time? -- L.K.

ANSWER: Prilosec (omeprazole), Aciphex, Protonix, Nexium and Prevacid are proton-pump inhibitors, the strongest medicines for decreasing stomach acid production. The manufacturers of these medicines suggest a four-to-eight-week course of medicine. The medicines don’t cure heartburn. They sup-press it as long as a person takes them. So what’s a person to do when heartburn re-turns after a course of therapy? Another kind of medicine, like Zantac, can be used. Com-mon antacids often work. Avoiding foods that stimulate acid production is another way to control symptoms. However, if acid reflux is severe, then the pro-ton-pump medicines are the best. Evidence suggests that long-term use might make a per-son more apt to have a hip fracture. That dan-ger can be partially offset by taking calcium and vitamin D. Many people remain on these medicines for extended periods. You have to make this decision for yourself.The booklet on hiatal hernia, acid reflux and heartburn focuses primarily on the common heartburn problem and its treatment. Read-ers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Dono-hue -- No. 501W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I would like to know about the side aches I get when I walk or run. Why do they occur? Do I walk them off or take a break until they go away? -- E.H.

ANSWER: What you call side aches, others call side stitches. Everyone gets them. Some feel they are spasms of the diaphragm -- the large, thin muscle that serves as a partition between the chest and abdominal cavities and the muscle that is the principal breath-ing muscle. Or they might be due to too much food or fluid in the digestive tract. Some be-lieve a decreased blood flow to the diaphragm is the cause. In truth, no one knows.One way to get rid of them is to raise both your arms overhead while taking a deep breath. Then lower your arms while exhaling and simultaneously contracting your abdomi-nal muscles. Another favored treatment is to bend the knee on the side of the pain while pressing your fingers into the painful area.***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have what doctors call black hairy tongue. Can you tell me about it? -- Anon.ANSWER: Black hairy tongue, aside from its looks, is an innocent condition that comes from the elongation of tongue papillae, tiny projections from the tongue’s surface. Gently brushing the tongue three times a day with toothpaste, baking soda or 3 percent hydro-gen peroxide can usually get rid of it. If it’s not gone in a month, return to the dentist or doctor for a follow-up exam.***Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to an-swer individual letters, but he will incorpo-rate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER?Adults were originally as much of an audienceof fairy tales as children – which might explainsome of the not so savory early fairy tales.Tidbits gives you some merry and impish factson some of our favorite Happily Ever Afters.

• The name fairy tale was probably first given tothese fantastical folklores by Madamd’Aulnoy, a writer known for her fairy tales,in 1697.

• Conte de fées literally means fairy tale and isthe name Madame d’Aulnoy gave her stories.

• Folklore and fairy tales can be found incultures and countries all over the world.They are hard to exactly trace because mostfairy tales pre-date their written versions andwere often been passed down orally longbefore being compiled – such as the casewith the Brothers Grimm.

• One of the oldest written fairy tales is thoughtto be “The Tale of Two Brothers” fromEgypt in 1185 B.C.. It is preserved on thePapyrus D’Orbiney, which is currentlyhoused in the British Museum.

• Many fairy tales were later rewritten to bemore suitable for children. The GrimmBrothers’ “The Juniper Tree” is one that iscommonly edited down as the originalinvolves cannibalism.

• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in 1785and 1786, respectively, in Frankfurt,Germany. In 1812 they published eighty-sixGerman fairy tales titled K i n d e r - u n d

Hausmarchen. There are approximately 200of the Grimms’ fairy tales in all, includingthe familiars like “Hansel and Gretel,”“Rapunzel” and “Snow White.”

• The Grimm version of “Snow White” is theversion Disney chose for the basis of the1937 film.

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PAW’S CORNERBy Sam Mazzotta

Picking a Great Dog Trainer

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I have two small children, and we re-cently added a new member to our family -- a Cocker Spaniel puppy. “Missy” is adorable, and my kids absolutely love her; however, she is more than I bargained for. I am having a very hard time training her and was thinking about going to a dog trainer who can work on everything from house training to basic commands and even aggres-sion. I have been hearing about a dog trainer based nearby. How do I know if he’ll be a good trainer for my dog? -- Jessica P., via e-mail

DEAR JESSICA: Word-of-mouth recommendations about a dog trainer can be very telling, and if the person telling you about him thinks he is good and can help you, there’s a good chance he can.Of course, there are other ques-tions you should ask directly of the trainer when you con-tact him. Does he belong to a professional organiza-tion such as the Associa-tion of Pet Dog Trainers (found at www.apdt.com)? Does he specialize in cer-tain breeds? How much experience does he have training Cocker Spaniels? What is the training for-mat -- one on one with the trainer, or a group setting

with pet owners? Can other family members participate in the class? Are there any health restrictions or specific vaccinations required of Missy before she can join?Don’t worry about asking too many questions! Good trainers care about your dog and will do their best to answer them.Working with a professional train-er will be incredibly beneficial for both Missy and you. It’s not only Missy who’s learning how to re-spond to commands, you also will learn how to respond to Missy’s behavior, how to stop bad habits and how to continue training her long after the sessions end. That’s right -- professional training is not just for your dog, it’s also training for you. That’s why it’s one of the best investments you can make for both Missy and your family.

Send your tips, questions and com-ments to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or e-mail them to [email protected].

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